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January 23,1991
Vol. 22, No. 7
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Good Morning
Board OKs YRE schedule
Parents may chose between YRE, traditional calendars
Davenport gets
nod from trustees
build a shelter with Collin County,
but the cities do not want their
names known “because they don’t
Lindberg said more than one city before they started doing their own,
has indicated it would be willing to which would be everything.”
EXTENDED FORECAST:
Thursday through Saturday —
Cloudy with a chance of showers
Friday and Saturday. Highs in mid
to upper 40s. Lows in the upper
20s to lower 30s.
WEATHER: Local weather
observer Big Daddy Summers
recorded 0.20 inches of rainfall
Friday, Jan. 18, and 0.55 inches
Saturday. The total for the year is
now 4.85 inches.
some citizens came and spoke to the
board about year-round education.
We knew we had some support out
there, but it was very nice to hear it
at the public meeting.
Davenport said the 60/20 calendar
will allow AISD to make a smooth
transition to year-round education.
“We were able to protect the
common July vacation,” Davenport
said. “That was important to the
sensitivity of the community’s lifes-
tyle. The 60/20 calendar will also
allow us to protect common teacher
workdays, which was important to
the principals. This way, they will
still have ‘one’ faculty.”
the Persian Gulf have many of the
same fears.
The possibilty that Iraq may use
chemical weapons concerns the
soldier’s mother. And she fears
that a uniformed officer will knock
at her door with news that all rela-
tives fear the most.
Duane is part of the 2nd Batta-
lion of the 82nd Field Artillery Unit,
3rd Armored Division, which in-
cludes M-1/A1 tanks. The division
arrived in Saudi Arabia from Ger-
many on Jan. 3.
“He wrote us the day before he
left, and it was real hard because he
had to say what he wanted done
with his things in case he didn’t
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Lifestyles
Classifieds
By Mark Hutchison
The Allen American Staff Writer
Camped out at a classified loca-
tion in the Saudia Arabian desert
somewhere near the Iraqi border,
U.S. Army Spec. Duane Smith
waits. If the order is given to
attack, he could be with one of the
first divisions to move out. Even
his family here in Allen doesn’t
know where he is stationed or what
his duties are.
“My fear is not so much how he
feels, but how he’s dealing with it,”
Dawn Troia, Duane’s mother,
said.
She and other Allen residents
who have loved ones stationed in
Scott Nowling/The Allen American Staff Photographer
for war news on Cable Network News. Dawn Troia’s son,
U.S. Army Spec. Duane Smith, is stationed in Saudi Arabia.
come back,” Dawn said. “Of
course, they all had to do that. I
knew he was going to be sending
the letter, but it was still hard.”
When Duane was stationed in
Germany, he was a colonel’s driv-
er. Now, he could be doing any-
thing.
“Over there, I imagine he’ll be
driving some type of personnel car-
rier or other track equipment,”
stepfather Tony Troia said.
Dawn works outside the home,
but yearns to sit at home and watch
television news reports about the
war with daughter Terra Troia and
son T.J. Troia. However, she
doesn’t get specific news about
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we teach should relate to them,”
Olson said. “And this tests them.
“The results in our district are
somewhat depressed, but they were
also down across the state. Some of
the results are encouraging. Com-
pared with TEAMS tests, which we
are more familiar with, the 1990
scores are comparable to the 1989
results.”
Students in grades three, five,
seven, nine and 11 were tested in
Duane’s division.
“I wish that I could just stay
home from work and watch that
tv,” she said. “But I can’t do that.
“The people that I work with
have been real supportive, even
though they don’t have anybody
over there. One girl has a brother
there, and one of the guys has a
brother there, but everybody in
the department has been suppor-
tive, too.”
The Troias recently began
attending support group meetings
in Plano.
“The house they’ve been meet-
ly got away from the Chevron sta- heard the exchange. Several cus-
tion with $176, was later arrested tomers saw the incident while
in Arkansas.
According to Allen Police De-
He said a third factor, and one of
the primary ones, was that the 60/20
calendar protects the six weeks cur-
riculum sequencing and report card
cycle.
The administration’s next step
will be to develop a recommendation
for the February board meeting re-
garding specific school site imple-
mentation and financial impact stu-
dies. The district expects to hear
before the board’s next meeting the
results of the grant proposal made to
the Texas Education Agency.
Davenport said the 60/20 plan
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School board plans
Saturday meeting
Trustees of the Allen Indepen-
dent School District will meet at 1
p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, in the
administration building, 200 S.
Cedar, to review the 1990-91
budget. The superintendent will
make a presentation, followed by
discussion by the board.
The board also will begin pre-
liminary planning for the 1991-92
budget during the special meeting.
All board meetings are open to
the public.
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family spend most of it in front of the television watching
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By Mark Hutchison
The Allen American Staff Writer
AISD Superintendent Gene
Davenport received a vote of confi-
dence Monday night when the board
of trustees approved a one-year ex-
tension of his contract.
Davenport, who is serving his fifth
year in AISD, was operating on a
three-year contract. It would have
become a two-year contract at the
end of the year. However, the ex-
tension maintains the contract’s
three-year length.
Results of the Texas Assessment
of Academic Skills tests were re-
ported to trustees Monday night.
The board also approved a tax abate-
ment policy, received an update on
the Campus Improvement Plan at
Vaughan Elementary School and
hired two new teachers for Allen
High School.
David Olson, the district’s direc-
tor of curriculum and instruction,
said TAAS scores across the state
were lower because the test date
was so early in the school year. In
previous years, TEAMS tests were
administered in February. This
year, the new TAAS tests were
administered in October.
“The state identified certain
essential elements, and everything
City’s new chamber of commerce
president: ‘Allen is a gold mine’
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In addition to operating his practice, Allen dentist K. Scott Wil-
liams is also the 1991 president of the Allen Chamber of Com-
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FORECAST: Today — Mostly
cloudy. South winds shifting to
the north. High in the upper 40s.
Low in the low 30s.
By Mark Hutchison week CLrs+m-s hreaL will Leoin
The Allen American Staff Writer WkK -nnSt mas break will begin
Monday, Dec. 23, and end Monday,
Allen Independent School District Jan. 6, 1992. The second vacation
Board of Trustees took the first step will occur during the month of
in phasing in year-round education at March. The school year will end
its regular monthly meeting Monday June 23, and July will be the third
night by passing two calendars for vacation month.
the 1991-92 school year. On the traditional calendar, the
Traditional and 60/20 modified 1991-92 year begins Monday, Aug.
year-round schedules will be avail- 26. Christmas break will be simul-
able to elementary school students taneous with the 60/20 schedule,
next fall. Parents may chose which Spring break will be March 16 to 20.
calendar their children will follow. The school year will end Friday,
On the 60/20 calendar, the 1991- May 29.
92 school year begins Thursday, “This was an important meeting,”
Aug. 1. Students will take their first Superintendent Gene Davenport
vacation in November. The two- said. “We were pleased to see that
County may contract
with Humane Society
By Larri Jo Starkey want to be picked on.”
arte- s taff nter “The representatives of the cities
Collin County may go back into prefer their names be kept quiet,”
contract with the Collin County Lindberg said.
Humane Society for animal control The commissioners took no action
services. on the problem Monday, but it is
At a workshop session Monday, expected to be on an agenda within
Collin County commissioners dis- the next few weeks. The county’s
cussed the possibility along with interim agreement with the city of
their alternatives. Plano ends in mid-February.
Bob Lindberg, director of admi- “Yes, we would reconsider doing
nistrative services, said another animal control,’’Jennifer Golden, ex-
alternative might be to build an anim- ecutive director of the Collin County
al shelter facility in cooperation with Humane Society said. “We would be
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Three caught in
Chevron robbery
By Scott Nowling partment Detective John Bruce, a
The Allen American Staff Wnter male suspect approached the male
Sharp eyes followed by a tele- cashier at the station and
phone call and quick response by appeared to want to buy a candy
Allen police officers resulted in bar. The suspect pointed a blue
the capture of two of three sus- steel revolver with a 6-inch barrel
pects in the aggrevated robbery of at the head of the cashier and de-
the Chevron service station and manded money.
convenience store at 102 S. State
St. at about 4:50 p.m. Friday. Other Chevron employees
The third suspect, who alleged- were in the back of the store and
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Scott Williams graduated from dental school in 1986 and Allen is it. It’s a small town where you don’t have
and moved directly to Allen. Now, less than five years to worry about traffic, yet it’s close enough to Dallas
later, he’s a vital member of the community. so that you can enjoy some of the nice things they
Dr. Williams became president of the Allen Cham- have to offer,” he said.
ber of Commerce Jan. 1. He isn’t the type to changes “Allen has great potential,” Williams said. “I’m ex- M
things, but he has a few ideas he said will help the cited about the fact that we now have an economic
organization become more visible. development director. Most towns our size can’t
Williams may also become more visible in the even consider something like that. To me, that’s an
Texas Dental Association, for which he serves as exciting plus that we have.”
recruitment retention officer of this region. He is a Williams said he joined the chamber of commerce
nominee to receive the regional Young Dentist of the when he opened his office here in 1986. He was i i
Year award, which recognizes overall excellence in nominated to the board or directors the following year —
general dentistry. and served as treasurer his second year on the board.
“What makes it nice is that it’s given by your Last year, he served as president-elect.
peers,” Williams said. “There’s no set progression, but I think being
The winner of the award will be annou.ced in May. treasurer is where you learn a lot about what’s going
Allen gained an active resident when Williams on,” he said. “You’re seeing the bills that come
chose to move to town because he has family here, through for activities and you’ve got to do the budget.
“I came here right out of dental school,” Williams And you learn what’s involved in the chamber when
said. “My sister and her husband live here, and they you do the budget.”
had more of an influence on us coming here than He said he believes it’s important for the chamber
anything else. I started my office in October of ’86, to increase the amount of information that the general
and I‘ve seen a lot of growth since then. membership and the public receives. “Most people
“My wife and I grew up in Commerce, so we knew
small town living. We lived in Houston, a big sprawling
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